From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#30217: Ambiguity in NEWS in emacs-26.0.91 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:40:15 -0500 Message-ID: <878tcpnyio.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> References: <20180122221743.GB4888@ACM> <5074511f-b3b3-45aa-80b4-130be08f30ec@default> <87efmho17g.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> <4c079376-7659-4962-aa73-39a4b4ed76e0@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516671555 16309 195.159.176.226 (23 Jan 2018 01:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 01:39:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , 30217@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 02:39:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ednYJ-0003rY-SR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:40:18 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zebian ([45.2.119.34]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id t8sm5248991ite.2.2018.01.22.17.40.16 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:40:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4c079376-7659-4962-aa73-39a4b4ed76e0@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:56:39 -0800 (PST)") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:142416 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: > But may I ask why such "strange quote" characters are not > taken as lisp-symbol constituent characters? Why the need > to escape them? Why are they treated specially? > > That description describes a workaround "to avoid confusion", > but it's not clear why we need "to avoid confusion". To give a less confusing error in cases like Bug#2967 and Bug#23425.